Semper Fi

"I would have shot the insurgent too. Two shots to the head," said Sergeant Nicholas Graham, 24, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. "You can't trust these people. He should not be investigated. He did nothing wrong."

You know, a few posts back, I did one about how the US Military was dangerously out of control, about the culture that breeds the sort of errors and atrocities committed by our soldiers, and how the situations our leadership puts these people in, combined with the deliberate development of a certain kind of thinking causes and will cause more events like this. I got a limited amount of shit, but had two former military folks, one Navy and one Air Force, express the opinion that I had hit this spot on. It seemed obvious to me, what with the current state of things, but it was not readily apparent to everyone.

Now we get this. A video of a US Marine shooting a wounded guy in the head. And doing it on video, which to me is the scary part. You don't do things on video unless you think you're right. This guy knew there was a reporter embedded with his unit - he's been following them around for months. The fact that this Marine was emboldened enough to do this thing on video, combined with the sentiment of the fellow above should be enough to convince all but the most in denial that there is a serious widespread problem with our military.

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Semper Fi

"I would have shot the insurgent too. Two shots to the head," said Sergeant Nicholas Graham, 24, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. "You can't trust these people. He should not be investigated. He did nothing wrong."

You know, a few posts back, I did one about how the US Military was dangerously out of control, about the culture that breeds the sort of errors and atrocities committed by our soldiers, and how the situations our leadership puts these people in, combined with the deliberate development of a certain kind of thinking causes and will cause more events like this. I got a limited amount of shit, but had two former military folks, one Navy and one Air Force, express the opinion that I had hit this spot on. It seemed obvious to me, what with the current state of things, but it was not readily apparent to everyone.

Now we get this. A video of a US Marine shooting a wounded guy in the head. And doing it on video, which to me is the scary part. You don't do things on video unless you think you're right. This guy knew there was a reporter embedded with his unit - he's been following them around for months. The fact that this Marine was emboldened enough to do this thing on video, combined with the sentiment of the fellow above should be enough to convince all but the most in denial that there is a serious widespread problem with our military.